Use Your Gifts for the Community.
19 September 2024
24th Week
Ordinary Time
Thursday
1 Cor 15:1-11
Meditation
Use Your Gifts for the Community.
St Paul tells us the
community of Corinthians that he has come to preach to them the gospel. Faith
in the gospel one is save us. He recounts the way he received the gospel. “For
what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that
Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was
buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the
Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and
then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of
the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living,
though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to
all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also…”(1 Cor 15:3-8).
He says that he was not
worthy to be called Apostle. He worked hard for the gospel. He says the grace
of God was upon him. It was this grace that led him to do what he did. We know
how much St Paul did for the building of the church. He used his strength of
the body and intelligence to build Christian communities with knowledge that is
acceptable to the learned and ignorant. Whatever may be our story of life let
us work for the Kingdom of God.
Do we utilize our gifts
of nature and grace for the Kingdom of God?
St Januarius
Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb
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